Land-roller



(No Model.)

J. HOREY & G. MARSH.

LAND ROLLER.

No. 426,018. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

Camfdzd m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HOREY AND GANFIELD MARSH, OF ROSENDALE, VISCONSIN.

LAND-ROLLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,018, dated April 22, 1890. Application filed March 26, 1889. Serial No. 304,806. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN HOREY and CAN- FIELD MARsH, citizens of the United States, residing at Rosendale, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of IVisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Land-Rollers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in land-rollers; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved landroller, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same.

I11 carrying out our invention we employ a series of staves A, which are of the desired length for the roller, and the ends of which are rabbeted at a to engage the annular flanges 1), formed at the edges of the disks or heads B B 011 the inner sides of the latter. The heads B B, which are circular in shape, are provided with the central openings D and with perforations E to receive the screw-bolts J, which extend longitudinally through the roller, and by which the said heads or ends are connected, said connecting-bolts being provided at their ends with nuts J which may be tightened to secure the parts firmly together.

Centrally within the roller is secured an interior annular bracing hoop or ring 0, which may be suitably secured to the staves, and which serves to brace the latter and to prevent them from collapsing.

F F are disks provided with outwardly-extending trunnions G. These disks are provided with perforations H, aligning with the perforations E in the disks or heads 13, and are secured to the latter by means of the connecting-bolts I, which are extended through the perforations H in said tru11nion-disks,tl1e nuts J being screwed up against the latter.

The operation and advantages of our invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings hereto annexed. The construction of our improved land-roller is simple and inexpensive and admits of the roller being knocked down or taken apart for storage or transportation, while it may be easily and quickly put together for use. The roller may be weighted with sand, gravel, or a mixture of clay and sawdust, or other suitable material, according to the weight it is desired to have, such material being introduced through the central opening D in one of the end disks or heads 13, from which the trunnion-plate F may be temporarily removed for this purpose, and said trunnion plate when replaced serves to retain the filling in the roller. The latter may be journaled by the trunnions G in a suitable frame for operation.

Having thus described our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- As an improvementin land-rollers, the combination of the heads or end disks 13, having central openings D, an nularinwardly-extending flanges l1, and bolt-holes E, the staves A, having rabbeted ends a, the trunnion-plates F, having outwardly-extending trunnions G and bolt-holes II, aligning with the bolt-holes in the end disks, and the connecting rods or bolts, the ends of which have nuts J, the whole forming a closed cylindrical roller adapted to receive a suitable filling, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto ai'fixed our siguatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HOREY. (JANFIELD MARSH. Witnesses:

J. H. SIeeERs, R. J. l\IARSHALL. 

